October 29, 2012 Anglo American Platinum offers bonus to bring back miners South Africa’s Anglo American Platinum (Amplats), the world’s largest platinum producer, has offered to reinstate 12,000 miners fired in early October for illegally striking and pay them a $230) “hardship…
October 28, 2012 French scientists transform H20 into gold Scientists from France's Ecole Polytechnique have developed a remarkable new technology which extracts trace amounts of gold from industrial waste water.
October 27, 2012 Police fire rubber bullets to disperse clashing union workers in South Africa Unrest in South Africa has cost the country R3.1bn (US$350 million).
October 26, 2012 Cynthia Carroll yields to pressure and leaves Anglo Where there is smoke… After several reports of Anglo American’s (LON:AAL) shareholders disappointment at both the company’s overall performance and her CEO, Cynthia Carroll, she has finally left the company.
October 25, 2012 South African unions sign deal with gold companies The South African National Union of Mineworkers and two other unions signed Thursday a deal with industry body the Chamber of Mines (CoM), agreeing to a new pay structure for…
October 24, 2012 AngloGold Ashanti fires 12,000 South African striking miners AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. (NYSE:AU), South Africa's largest gold miner by output, said Wednesday it has began to dismiss about 12,000 of its striking workers, joining this way an increasing list…
October 23, 2012 Gold Fields fires 8,500 striking workers as mining companies get tough on unrest Gold Fields (JSE:GFI) has fired 8,500 striking workers at a mine in South Africa following their failure to respond to an ultimatum to abandon the strike.
October 23, 2012 Canada’s Ivanplats closes $307 million IPO and now trades shares on the TSX Africa-focused miner Ivanplats (TSX:IVP), founded by billionaire Robert Friedland, successfully closed Tuesday its $307-million initial public offering (IPO) on the Toronto stock exchange, issuing total equity of $504 million (Cdn$493).
October 23, 2012 North Bay Resources Inc (NBRI): mining operations begin at Fraser River project The Fraser River Project is located near Lytton in south central British Columbia, Canada, and covers approximately 4.5 kilometers of placer claims along the Fraser River.
October 21, 2012 Fresh calls for Carroll’s head. Anglo CEO could be out ‘within weeks’ "There have been signals from the company that there will be change at the top – and soon."
Super Copper’s Cordillera project approved by Chile’s National Mining Authority The concessions cover approximately 6,858 hectares in the Atacama copper belt. December 24, 2025 | 11:24 am
